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Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. : Contenant la nauigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'aucteur: le comportement de Villegagnon, en ce païs là. Les meurs [sic] & façons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, arbres, herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inconues par deça, dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure. Non encores mis en lumiere, pour les causes contenues en la preface.

by: Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611; H. F. V. W. fmo RIBRL; Indigenous Languages Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library) RPJCB

Publication date: 1578

Topics: Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, 1510-1571?, Indians of South America, Indians of South America, Tupi Indians, Tupi language, Tupi language, Natural history, Imprint 1578

Publisher: [La Rochelle, France] : Pour Antoine Chuppin

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: French; tup

Volume: Copy 2

Item Size: 1.2G

Place of publication suggested by Alden

The author gives an account of Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon's colony in Brazil and the Tupi Indians who inhabited the country

There are certain variations in the text on p. [7], 1st count

"Colloque de l'entree ou arriuee en la terre du Bresil entre les gens du pays nommez Tououpinambaoults, & Toupinenquin en langage sauuage & François", p. 340-377, contains numerous phrases in the Tupi language translated into the French language, a discussion of grammar with examples, and a comparative glossary of words in Tupi and French. There are also numerous words and phrases in the Tupi language scattered throughout the text

Signatures: ã (ã1 verso blank) (8 verso blank) A-2C 2D 2E (2E7 verso and 2E8 blank)

Errata statement: p. [13], 3rd count

Includes index

Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials

Includes woodcut full page illustrations of the Tupi Indians

Arents, G. Tobacco

Church, E.D. Discovery

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.)

Alden, J.E. European Americana

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has line 3-4 on p. [7], 1st count, reading: "actions. Ce vingtcinquieme de Decembre, mil / cinq cens soixante & dixsept"

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 imperfect: wanting blank leaf, p. [15-16], 3rd count

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has line 3-4 on p. [7], 1st count, reading: "actions. Ce vingtieme de Decembre, mil cinq / cens soixante & dixsept"

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 imperfect: p. [5-8], 3rd count, misbound before p. [1-4], 3rd count; p. [9-12], 3rd count, misbound after p. [13-16], 3rd count

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary full vellum

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: H.F.V.W.: black stamped crest of front and back covers of vellum binding